Martin Lee Smith is seeking employment and has over 5 years of experience in manufacturing environments. He has a strong work ethic and is reliable, trustworthy, and safety-conscious. His key skills include being a team player, good communicator, and able to work independently. His employment history includes roles in manufacturing, logistics, and administration. He has obtained various certifications in manufacturing, safety, cleaning, and leadership. In his personal time, he enjoys spending time with his family, going to the gym, driving, and making music.

1. MARTIN LEE SMITH
30 Claremont Road, Spital Tongues Newcastle, NE2 4AN
martinleesmith@rocketmail.com 07903153782
Personal Profile
With over 5 years’ experience in a fast paced production manufacturing environment, I am
aware of the demand on meeting targets, hitting deadlines and delivering quality assurance.
I am determined, hardworking and willing to graft. During my time I have developed my
knowledge and understand the need to follow instructions and I am health and Safety
especialy within this health and safety conscious environment.
Key Skills
• Trustworthy - I have shown that I can be trusted to do the job in hand to a good standard,
look after people, equipment and be trusted with money; I did this whilst working in a tooling
office and was the point of sale on the front desk.
• Team player or Individual - I am a team player who can work very well within a team, take
other people’s opinions into consideration and motivate people to get the best out of them. I
am a good person to be around and can be an asset to the team like when I was the captain
of my Sunday league and school football team. As well as being a team player I can also be
an individual, get my head down and carry out tasks and hit the deadlines given.
• Good attender and punctual - I am always at work and I am a good time keeper I have
shown this when working at Nissan if you’re not on your work station at the correct time the
line will start without you. I am a hardworking reliable person who can work practically or
pragmatically whilst under pressure.
• Practical – I am a grafter my father was a coal miner and I am not shy of hard work.
• Good communicator - Another one of my key skills is communicating with others, I am able
to get information across clearly, precise and to the point in a way others can understand
very easily especially in my role as an administrator.
Employment
June 15 – Jan 16 Nissan Manufacturing UK Manufacturing Staff
Working in Bumper Paint, checking freshly painted front and rear bumpers also fitting
parking sensors, fog lamps and various other parts to the bumpers ready to be fitted online
to Nissan motors.
Feb 15 – June 15 NAC Port of Tyne Driver
Driving brand new vehicles on and off ferries and parking them up ready to be shipped.
Mar 14 – Dec 14 Easibathe / Easiaccess Labourer
Assisting the stores keeper with heavy lifting and moving stock around within the warehouse,
picking and palletising orders and unpacking heavy good deliveries.
Sept 13 – Mar 14 Calsonic Kansei Production Operator
Within this role I was producing parts ready to be shipped to the car manufacturer, working
in a busy factory environment on plastic mould car parts such as dash boards. I was
required to adhere to Health and Safety policies, the 5s procedure use lean manufacturing,
apply Kaizen and continuously improve workings whilst on a three shift pattern from anything
from 8 to 12 hour per shift.
Feb 07 - Sept 08 Nissan Manufacturing UK Manufacturing Staff
Working on the chassis line fitting parts and involved in the manufacture of motor vehicle.
During this role I was involved in the lean manufacturing of the vehicle and helped in the
Kaizen continuous improvement of the production procedure and 5s within the factory
development, whilst maintaining a high level of Health and Safety at all times, this was a
very demanding yet rewarding role.

2. April 2006 – February 2007 Newalls - Pyrex Factory Worker
Working on a busy production line manufacturing glass products whilst ensuring the correct
packaging of the goods. I also was responsible for the general upkeep of the line, making
sure that all Health and Safety procedures were followed and that it was kept clean at all
times.
August 2004 - March 2006 Quality Tooling NE Ltd Admin / Stores keeper
Starting off as an Office Junior, I was promoted to stores where my duties included the
maintenance of the storeroom, stock control, setting up/amending/deleting stock cards and
ordering goods from suppliers. As well as other administration tasks such as taking orders,
making and receiving phone calls, placing orders, filing, faxing, photocopying and any other
general administration tasks as and when required. I was also the first point of contact so
had to have good customer service skills and be trusted with money this company is a
respected distributor to most engineering companies within the North East.
Education and Training
12/01/15 - 20/02/15 NAC Training Nissan Training Sunderland
Taking part in a 6 week work based programme learning and developing skills that can be
used within the Engineering Manufacturing Industry. This included 2 days’ work experience,
working on a mocked up production line to develop team work sills.
Nov 12 - Mar 12 Rolls Royce Training Centre Newcastle
It was a 13 week programme working towards the certificate, preparation for working within
the Engineering, Manufacturing Industry, whereby we learn about various procedures used
in the industry such as Kaizen, 5S and HASWA. This included 8 weeks practical work on the
Milling and Turning machines and (CAD) Computer Aided Design programmes.
Certificates
2016 CSCS Card
2014 Falck Teesside Banks-man, Rigging and Slinger OPITO Level 1
2014 CAEBS Emergency Breathing Systems OPITO Level 1
2014 Basic Offshore Safety Induction Training OPITO Level 1
2014 Minimal Industry Safety Training OPITO
2014 Medical OPITO
2014 City & Guilds Cleaning Level 3
2012 NUFC Foundation Sports Leadership Level 1
2012 Web Learning Food safety Level 2
2011 Crisis Skylight Welcome Host - Customer Services Level 1
2007 Nissan Handling Manufacturing Operations NVQ Level 2
2006 Quality Tooling Business Administration Apprenticeship NVQ Level 2
98/03 Thorn-hill GCSES: English Literature and Language Grade B
Design and Technology Electronics Grade B
French, Mathematics, History, Grade C
Communication Systems, Business Studies Grade C
Science Double Award Grade D
Hobbies and Interests
I enjoy spending time with my family, going to the gym, driving and making music in my
home